Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for everyone there is a better way of expressing yourself at work or in complaining at the garage , for instance . |
| 2 | Plants which float on the surface with or without rooting at the bottom |
| 3 | I despised the other actors for not sticking up for me , and for sniggering at the accent when I finally did it . |
| 4 | And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women . |
| 5 | I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight . |
| 6 | This section will look at how this teacher involvement can be achieved , both in general terms and by looking at a specific example in detail . |
| 7 | This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't . |
| 8 | If we get first division people I 'll do it a different way to him if I had to end up with second division people and the responsibilities they take on board will very much reflect that and the same surely should happen to the field sales force erm their abilities are reflected in in what sort of activities we give them and by looking at the people we have we then put together a team to most accurately attack whatever we want to do . |
| 9 | Parliament 's role has not been executive , but supervisory — it has sought to subject the executive to certain limits and controls , to protect the liberties of the individual citizen against the arbitrary use of power , to focus the mind of the nation on the great issues of the day by the maintenance of a continuous dialogue or discussion , and by remaining at the centre of the stage to impose … ‘ manners of behaviour ’ on the whole political system . |
| 10 | So his lack of faith was not a matter of failing to straddle an impossible credibility gap , but of baulking at a simple step of trust on the evidence of inescapable reasons . |
| 11 | But before looking at the idea behind this revolution in printing , consider its consequences . |
| 12 | But before looking at the two most important examples of planning for peace , the Beveridge Report and the Butler Education Act of 1944 , it is important to note a number of ways in which peacetime policy changes were foreshadowed by ad hoc wartime measures . |
| 13 | The CAB welfare worker can not predict exact dates but by looking at a client 's circumstances he or she can give some indication . |
| 14 | We can appreciate one reason for this if we examine the question , not from the viewpoint of symptoms used to try to distinguish schizophrenia from affective psychosis , but by looking at the underlying psychological processes that are responsible for the two states . |
| 15 | Notice that , although I have just summarized some of the teacher 's predicament that I described in Chapter 2 , we have arrived at the summary by a different route : not by reporting what people say , but by looking at the inevitable consequences of working in a demanding situation . |
| 16 | But by looking at the clues of the building we can see that it was there . |
| 17 | I was intrigued recently to read an interview with Roman Polanski , the film director , in which he claimed that he learns languages not by learning tracts of vocabulary , but by playing at the sounds of a new language , first speaking a " gibberish " version of it , finding out what it feels like to be making those sounds and those speech patterns . |
| 18 | But by starting at the other end , |